MEYBA's Yellow Submarine is a playful detour worth taking.
MEYBA’s new collaboration with The Beatles: Yellow Submarine isn’t the biggest drop of the year and it doesn’t need to be. It’s a playful, unexpected crossover that sits comfortably in MEYBA’s world of football nostalgia and cultural curiosity. If the brand’s past Beatles-inspired collections were headline acts, this one feels like the encore that brings a smile rather than steals the show.
This is the third and final part of MEYBA’s Beatles trilogy, following collections inspired by Abbey Road and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The concept is simple: take an iconic album, draw from its imagery and tone, and reimagine it through a football lens. With Yellow Submarine, the brand has chosen a source that’s less about realism and more about colour, fun and movement. It’s not a record about perfection. It’s about energy and imagination.
The Yellow Submarine range features three football shirts, four graphic tees and a varsity jacket. Visually, it’s what you’d expect from a film that gave us Blue Meanies and Pepperland. Bright, cartoonish details, retro fonts and bold primary colours run through the collection. It’s playful without becoming costume, which is harder to pull off than it sounds. The football shirts in particular have that throwback energy MEYBA does well: wearable pieces that nod to the past but don’t lean too heavily on it.
Since its revival, MEYBA has carved out a niche that’s equal parts football heritage and cultural storytelling. Once the brand behind Cruyff and Maradona’s Barcelona, it’s now exploring the football culture and the space where music, nightlife and design overlap with the game. That makes a Beatles tie-in feel on brand, but this drop feels slightly looser, lighter and more self-aware than some of their previous efforts. It’s a brand having a bit of fun with its own history.
The connection to Villarreal CF, known in Spain as El Submarino Amarillo, adds a nice local layer. There’s a football link here that feels organic rather than forced. If you’ve ever seen Villarreal play in that deep canary yellow, you can see how the idea translates naturally from record sleeve to shirt. It’s also the kind of quiet crossover that makes sense once you notice it. Not something that needs to shout to be understood.
Is this MEYBA’s most important collaboration? Probably not. But that’s exactly why it works. It feels relaxed. Confident enough to not need a manifesto. The designs don’t scream for attention, they just invite a second look - the kind that rewards you with small details and a sense of play. In a space where football fashion can often feel heavy with nostalgia or too eager to be taken seriously, this collection remembers that the game (and the culture around it) is supposed to be fun.
What makes the Yellow Submarine collection worth checking out is that it doesn’t pretend to be anything it’s not. It’s a creative detour. A chance for MEYBA to step into a brighter, slightly weirder world without losing its identity. It fits neatly into what the brand has been building but adds a splash of colour that feels genuinely refreshing.
The trilogy might be closing here, but this one lands softly. A nice reminder that not every collaboration has to chase legacy. Sometimes, it’s enough to just make something cool, well-crafted and a little bit joyful.
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